Abstract: A bracket and a fighting chair for a fishing boat incorporating the bracket. The bracket includes a first part which can be attached to the seat of a fishing chair, and which has two removable pins and a fixed pin extending between two walls, and a rotating part which has a near end with a slot which is inserted between the two walls of the fixed part to engage the pins. The rotating part has a far end which can be attached to the back of the chair. With the bracket incorporated in the chair, the seatback has an upright position, an intermediate reclining position, a down position underneath the seat of the chair where the seatback is entirely out of the way, and a locked position just beyond the down position.